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Family-Based Care Buffers the Stress Sensitizing Effect of Early Deprivation on Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adolescence
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Wade, Mark; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Buzzell, George A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Nelson, Charles A. – Child Development, 2023
We examined whether family care following early-life deprivation buffered the association between stressful life events (SLEs) and executive functioning (EF) in adolescence. In early childhood, 136 institutionally reared children were randomly assigned to foster care or care-as-usual; 72 never-institutionalized children served as a comparison…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Executive Function, Foster Care, Child Development
The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long-Term Academic Achievement
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Deer, LillyBelle K.; Hastings, Paul D.; Hostinar, Camelia E. – Child Development, 2020
This study utilized data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 14,860) to examine whether early-life family income (age 0-5) predicted long-term academic achievement (age 16-18) and to investigate the role of executive function (EF) assessed multiple times across age 7-11 in explaining this association. Task-based EF was a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Young Children
The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference. NBER Working Paper 25888
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Heckman, James J.; Karapakula, Ganesh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, African Americans, Males, Adolescents
Forecasting Youth Adjustment at Age 15 from School Readiness Profiles at 54 Months
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Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C.; Sabol, Terri J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
A person-oriented approach examined the extent to which patterns of school readiness across social and cognitive domains in 944 typically-developing 54-month-old children forecast academic achievement, social-emotional development, risk taking, and executive functioning at age 15. Prior work identified six distinct profiles of school readiness at…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Young Children, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
How Do the Different Components of Episodic Memory Develop? Role of Executive Functions and Short-Term Feature-Binding Abilities
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Picard, Laurence; Cousin, Sidonie; Guillery-Girard, Berenere; Eustache, Francis; Piolino, Pascale – Child Development, 2012
This study investigated the development of all 3 components of episodic memory (EM), as defined by Tulving, namely, core factual content, spatial context, and temporal context. To this end, a novel, ecologically valid test was administered to 109 participants aged 4-16 years. Results showed that each EM component develops at a different rate.…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Recognition (Psychology), Child Development, Context Effect
The Brain Basis for Integrated Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: How Emotions and Social Relationships Drive Learning
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Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Krone, Christina – Aspen Institute, 2018
This research brief explores how emotions and relationships drive learning and are a fundamental part of how our brains develop. The authors explain how emotionally safe and cognitively stimulating environments contribute to brain development; how brain development that supports learning depends on social experiences; and how sensitive periods in…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Learning Processes, Socialization, Developmental Stages
Creating Balance in the New Age of Technology
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Herman, Jana Morgan – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2012
Marc Prensky coined the term "digital native" in 2001 to describe those who have grown up with a constant interaction of technology, including television, video games, and the Internet (Prensky, 2001). For these people, many of them now in their twenties, life has always included the presence of screens--televisions, cell phones, iPods, video…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Access to Information, Adolescents, Generational Differences